My Generation: Honor Levy’s My First Book & the Old Shock of the New
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Early in Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country, the socially omniscient Charles Bowen remarks of the protagonist Undine Spragg: “… she’s a monstrously perfect result of the system: the completest proof of its triumph.” Undine’s ascent via marriage from small town to the echelons of New York is both harbinger of destruction to a society so petrified in their ways as to be an insect in amber and unstoppable trajectory fixed upon nothing but what exists in the moment. Class and generation clash, leaving, as they are wont to do, the old guard holding on to the vestiges of their ruins while the upstarts create a new world according to their desires.
My Generation: Honor Levy’s My First Book & the Old Shock of the New
My Generation: Honor Levy’s My First Book …
My Generation: Honor Levy’s My First Book & the Old Shock of the New
Early in Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country, the socially omniscient Charles Bowen remarks of the protagonist Undine Spragg: “… she’s a monstrously perfect result of the system: the completest proof of its triumph.” Undine’s ascent via marriage from small town to the echelons of New York is both harbinger of destruction to a society so petrified in their ways as to be an insect in amber and unstoppable trajectory fixed upon nothing but what exists in the moment. Class and generation clash, leaving, as they are wont to do, the old guard holding on to the vestiges of their ruins while the upstarts create a new world according to their desires.